Comey is Mueller’s close personal friend and professional colleague of many years. Now, Comey has released a prejudicial book and done TV interviews about many of the very topics that Mueller is in the process of actively investigating. Comey has portrayed Trump very harshly while not producing any new facts or evidence.
Mueller refused to recuse himself over this friendship with a principal who was a central figure in the investigation.
Should there be a move to appoint a different special counsel? Does Trump have a right to a fair investigation like other citizens? Is Mueller/ Rosenstein without any accountability?
Just to be clear, the current Republican conspiracy theory is that Trump cannot be fairly investigated by his own appointee?
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I'm not saying your position is, in fact, weak. I'm saying you have some concerns about it, given your reply above.
You also like to argue from authority a lot, but I don't think that is a tell. I think you think the argument from authority is not a logical fallacy.
Not feeling very aggressive on this end. Exasperated, maybe.
But stupid questions should expect brief answers.
that Comey and Mueller are close friends and colleagues, is it possible for Trump to get a fair investigation given Muellers likely similar viewpoint. This concern is further reinforced by who Mueller chose to make up his team of investigators - all hard core Dems.
I never meant to imply that the book itself could lead to some sort of "investigational mistrial". I meant that the book reveals an underlying bias very likely to be shared by the author's good friend Mueller, and I thus was asking if Trump can get a fair investigation after this revelation. I asked the same question when Mueller revealed the composition of his investigatory team.
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It’s amazing:
“DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!”
That’s the president of the United States tweeting there.
Very effective
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Ironically, it is mostly Lefties who follow his Twitter.
The media investigates. The president tweets what he hears and feels. To each his own.
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Fixed it for you.
You're welcome.
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I remember telling Chris when Mueller’s ties to Comey first came out that it would be better for everyone if Mueller was replaced early for not having recused himself because of the possibility of this very eventuality.
If there was a Board investigation going about you for firing Ned, I can tell you for sure that you would not have faith in the investigation if I were the investigator. If I stacked my team with Conservative posters, you would become nervous about getting railroaded. If you then saw multiple texts from Cole mentioning secret meeting that we had as a secret society, and later Ned wrote a tell all book about your wild exploits while at the same time, I was raiding your lawyer and other lib posters on tha board....you,wouldn’t trust my results.
Now aside from the fact that all of what I mentioned in my board analogy is actually going on without your knowledge, can’t you see a problem here? Really? I am not asking about what the legal letter of the law says, I am talking about the perception, since that is what will drive any consequence to this entire process.
This investigation did not have to be doomed from the start, but the IC had a specific outcome that they wanted, and that meant asking Mueller despite the ties to Comey. But, it never had to be that way for an honest investigation.
The same as any adversarial proceeding. The other side may be biased, but the evidence is the evidence.
Nearly every lawsuit I've been involved with, the other side was biased.
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And while evidence is evidence, it isn't always ALL of the evidence. And we have only Mueller and Weismann deciding what is shown
We also know from Comey how Mueller likely looks at things
And we know from Hillary's investigation that they are willing to discard the law to achieve a political end